The Messenger

116 minutes • 2019 • 5.8

A fast-paced and well-produced action film by the successful Polish director Wladyslaw Pasikowski that tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of World War II; cure Jan Nowak-Jezioranski. As a messenger for the Polish government-in-exile in London and the resistance movement back home in Warsaw, he smuggled vital information through the German-occupied territories. He also played an important role in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. All this portrays Pasikowski at a breathless pace, which makes even the greatest spy films fade in the shadow of it.